The encyclopedia of games : rules and strategies for over 250 games from Snap to Sardines, croquet to Canasta

Which is better - a flush or a full house? Did you know that Backgammon was once banned by the church? Do you know that success in Cheat is all about looking innocent? What's the best strategy for making an interesting bid in Bridge? Who created the original game of Badminton over 2000 years ago? If you want to learn a little more about the history of your favorite game, as well as brush on rules and tactics, this is the book for you. Over 250 games for indoors and outdoors, for singles and groups, for adults and children - everything from Snap to Sardines and Croquet to Canasta. Cover Back Cover Title Contents Introduction FAMILY GAMES Indoor games Balloon Race Bean Race Beetle Bird's Nest Blind Man's Bluff Buzz and Buzz-Fizz Calendar Target Charades Codes/Morse Code Dino Tracks Dumb Crambo Earth, Air, Fire and Water Elves, Gnomes and Giants Everybody Out Find that Letter Five Senses Fluttering Feathers Going Blank Hot Potato How? When and Where? I Have Never In the Manner of the Word Journalists Likes and Dislikes Lost on the Moon Moonrock Grab Mora Murder in the Dark My Little Bird Pass the Orange Pictures Plus and Minus Rumours Sardines Scissors, Paper, Stone Sleeping Lions Spoof Sun and Rain Telegrams The Farmyard The Hat Game The Phrase Game Throwing the Handkerchief Towering Cards What's My Line? Winking Wrong! Yes-No Beans Written games Acrostics Alphabet Race Anagrams Battleships Boxes Categories Consequences Crosswords Crystals Geography Race Guggenheim Hangman Headlines Legs Lotto Noughts and Crosses Pyramids Quizzes Short Stories Spoof Words (The Dictionary Game) Sprouts Squiggles Telegrams The Poetry Game Transformation Word and spoken games Analogies Associations Botticelli Coffee-pot Ghosts Grab on Behind Guess What? I Love My Love I Packed My Bag I Spy Initial Answers Initial Letters Number Associations Number Plates Proverbs Taboo Traveller's Alphabet Twenty Questions Who Am I? CARD GAMES Games for one Clock Patience Crossword Rower Garden Grandfather's Clock Klondike Lovely Lucy Maze Monte Carlo Ninety-one Pyramid The Four Comers Westcliff Children's games Beehive Beggar My Neighbour Card Dominoes (Fan Tan) Cheat Donkey Eleven Up Fish Go Boom Good Morning Madam Good Riddance Happy Families Linger Longer My Ship Sails Old Maid Pelmanism Play or Pay Snap Uno® Non-trick games Canasta Casino Cribbage Gin Rummy Racing Demon Trick games Bezique Contract Bridge Euchre Five Hundred Hearts Knaves Whist Gambling games Brag Chemin de Fer Faro Hoggenheimer Poker Pontoon BOARD GAMES Racing board games Alleyway Backgammon Bees to the Honeypot Chinese Checkers Cows and Leopards Fox and Geese Fox and Geese Solitaire Halma Hyena Chase Leapfrog Ludo Nyout Quartette Scrabble® Snakes and Ladders Solitaire Twiddleunis Vortex Wolf and Goats Strategic games Alquerque Chess Conquest Draughts Four Field Kono Go Hex Horseshoe Nine Men's Morris Owari Queen's Guard Reversi or Othello® Ringo DOMINO AND DICE GAMES Domino games All Fives Bergen Blind Hughie Block Dominoes Cross Dominoes Cyprus Double Cross Dominoes Double Nine Cross Dominoes Draw Dominoes Maltese Cross Dominoes Matador Tile games Mah Jong Dice games Aces in the Pot Centennial Craps Dix Mille Drop Dead Everest General Hearts or Hearts Due Help Your Neighbour Indian Dice Liar Dice Pig Poker Dice Shut the Box Thirty-six Yacht ACTIVE GAMES Games of skill Billiards or English Billiards Carom Billiards Darts Jacks Pick Up Sticks Pool Snooker Tenpin Bowling Tiddlywinks Simple outdoor games Call the Ball Calling the Compass Hide and Seek Hopscotch Marbles Moon and Stars Queenie Quoits Round Hopscotch Shadow Tag Simon Says Skipping Games Statues Tag Tom Tiddler's Ground Touch Tag Wall Ball Coin-tossing games Brother Jonathan Cover it Two Up Swimming pool games Dolphin Challenge Loch Ness Monster Marco Polo Neptune Says Pirate's Treasure Seal in the Middle Seaweed Shark Soaking Sock Relay Soggy Sponges Tasty Ice-Cream Three Strikes and You're Out Water Statues Whirlpool Wipeout Football games Australian Rules Football Gaelic Football Gridiron (American Football) International Rules Football Rugby League Rugby Union Soccer Bat, racquet and stick games Badminton Baseball Cricket Croquet French Cricket Golf Hockey Hurling Ice Hockey Indoor Cricket Softball Squash Table Tennis Tennis Other ball games Basketball Netball Volleyball Acknowledgements